Maryam Jafri

Maryam Jafri (1972, Karachi, Pakistan) is an artist with a special interest in questioning the visual representation and culture of history, politics and the economy and who works with video, sculpture, performance and photography. Starting from research and interdisciplinary processes, her works of art are marked by a visual language halfway between cinema and theatre and a series of narrative experiments that swing between a script and a document, a fragment and a whole. Her work has been exhibited in numerous places internationally, such as Gasworks in London and Kunsthalle in Basel and she took part in the exhibition at the Belgian Pavilion at the last Venice Biennale. Soon, during 2016, she will have a solo exhibition at P! in New York, another at the Institute of Modern Art in Brisbane and she will be taking part at the São Paulo Art Biennial. With a degree in English and American literature from Brown University and a Master's degree at the Tisch School of the Arts of New York University, she graduated through the independent study program at the Whitney Museum.
She lives and works between New York and Copenhagen.